diagnosing test failures

i'm looking for pointers and suggestions as to how to start diagnosing
test failures for the tests that one can run upon installation. in
particular, the "search" test seems to fail with 1.2.11 on HP-UX 11 and
I've no clue where to begin.
rick jones
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